Ring mesh and chain machine



Dec. 25 1923. 1,478,808

J. M. WEBER RING MESH AND CHAIN MACHINE Filed Aug. 30 1921 2 5heetsSheet H INVENTO/P ya%wm77 cmz 1 MAL J. M. WEBER RING MESH AND CHAIN MACHINE Filed Aug. 30, 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet z mnuuuuuu llllHl Patented Dec. 25, 1923.

UNITED stares A'rENr oFFicE.

JOHANN'MARTIN WEBER, 0F FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO ERNST GIDEON BEK, OF PFORZHEIM, GERMANY.

RING MESH AND CHAIN MACHINE.

Application filed. August 30, 1921. Serial No 496,926.

(GRANTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1921, .41 STAT. 11., 1313.)

To aZZ whom it may concern. 7

Be it known that I, J OHANN MARTIN VVE- BER, a citizen of the German Republic, and

Ger-

resident of Frankfort-on-the-Main, many, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ring Mesh and Chain Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Applications for patents for this invention have been filed in Germany June 2 1, 1916; Austria April 16, 1917; Switzerland April 17, 1917; Netherlands January 15, 1920; Spain February 3, 1920; Czechoslovakia April 17, 1920; Poland June 26, 1920; Sweden January '28, 1920; Denmark J anuary 28, 1920; England January 14, 1921; Norway February 14, 1921; Italy February 2, 1921; Belgium January 7, 1921; France March 11, 1921; Hungary February 18, 1921.

This invention relates to machines for automatically making wire fabric of the type known as ring-mesh but is applicable also to the manufacture of chains. It relates more particularly to the soldering of the rings and to the introduction of a piece of solder into the joint of each link preparaj tory to the soldering by heating the chain or ring-mesh. I

The principal object of the present invention is to cut 'off a piece of solder from a thread, to transport it to the spot where the joint or seam of a chain-link is to be subsequently formed and to hold the said piece of solder by specialv means positively at the proper spot until the joint is completed and the faces ofthe wire pressed against the solder.

Other features of the invention to obtain this object will appear from the following specification and the drawings.

operative parts of the machine, which may be mounted on a proper machine frame and 7 Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are three horizontal sections showing the operative parts in sub-c sequent steps of their function,

I have shown inthe drawings only the Figs. 4 and 5 are corresponding vertical sectlons partly 1n elevat on. 1

F1gs. 6 and 7 are enlarged sections of de tails.

In Fig. 1 is the wire from which a chain-- link is to be formed and to be inserted into the previously formedadjacent link or links of a chain or a ring-mesh respectively. The w1re is passed before the face of a horlzontal pusher or front former Cguided in cheek pieces C in a well known way.

The required length of wire is cut off by a cutter A, when the latter is moved from the positionshown in Fig. 3 tothe position shown in Fig. 1. The circular cutter is fasbe turned as soon as the edge has grown blunt, to adjust the edge by a length equal to the diameter of the wire. The cuttingedge being formed by two conical surfaces, the

face of the wire cut thereby is conical also. The two opposing faces of the wire formlng the 1011K or seam of a chain link present a cavitywell adapted to hold the soldering piece. The wire piece a is formedto U- shape by a bending pin B forcing the wire into grooves of the front former C in a well known manner (Fig. 2.)

I-Iereuponthe front former C 1s moved intothe position shown in Fig. 3 thereby I sliding the U-shaped piece through grooves of a bifurcated slide C finto the position shown in Fig. 3.

H The bending pin 13 is removed and its place taken by a back-forming pin 6 of semicircular section, leaving the back part of the U-shaped piece unoccupied and so allowing space occupied by the adjacent links, which have been received in a well known manner during the described motion of theU-shaped osition to which corres ondsthe forward position (Figs. 1, 3, 4 ando), of the horiontally movable back former D. e is a shoulder between theback forming pin 6 and the stouter lower part of the block E.

Th s ho ld r e is shown in Fig 4 a d 5 in the horizontal plane occupied by the U- shaped wire piece and the back former D.

actuated intermittently by the pawl, and ratchet 9 9 and the gear g by the vertical motion of the; block Hereby the rollers feed a piece 'of' soldering thread corresponding to the thickness ofthe-chai n wire a at every movement of the block E to protrude above the shoulder 6 The soldering thread may be riflied beforehand or -may be riiiied by the rollers G G to impart a greater friction to the piece 7 of solderenclo'sed'in the seam of the link before its melting.

The protruding end of the soldering thread Fis severedby acutter'K (Fi 7).

This cutter K may be integral with the ack former D.

The severed piece of solder is received in slit in crossing the side walls of the groove Z at'its apex and acting as a holder of thesaid piece and-is carried forward and shoved over theshould'er e by the back 'former D when sliding to its end position.

After this spothas beenreachedtheback former D stops. 'Hereupon the described motion-0 f the U-shaped-wire piece causes the ends oft-he Wire to "bend themselves over the pin 0 and topress the piece of solder between their concave faces cut by the cutter A. r j V Now what I claim and desire tosecureby Letters Patent is thefollowing:

In a machine for making connecting and soldering wire-links the combination of' means to form a U-shaped piece, a back fOIIDGIQnlGELllS to feed the end of soldering thread to the place where the seam of the and soldering wire-links the combination link is to be formed, means to close the link around the'sa'id end and-to sever-such end from the thread.

2. In a machine for making connecting of means to' sever a piece of solderfrom a thread, a grooved back former 'provlded with a crossshttraversrng1ts groove and adapted to receive and hold; the severed pieceof solder.

3. Ina machine 'for' making connecting and soldering wire-links the combination of a reciprocating block providedi withla "shoulder and a back forming -pin -'at -the side of the shoulder, a channel to feed the soldering thread through provided in the said block and opening in the said shoulder, means to sever a protruding piece of solder from the thread and means to feed the severed piece of solder to the place where the seam of the link is to be formed.

4. In a machine of the character described the combination of a vertical back-forming pin means to raisethe said pin a grooved back-former adapted to hold a piece of soldering metal at its apex, means-to move the said back-former horizontally into, its operative position after the raisingfof the saidpin, a front former adapted to form a U-shapedwire piece and means to, move the said former'horizontally after the back former has reached the said'operative posi- 5; In a machine for making articles havingconnectedlinks, in combination, means for severing a blank of a predetermined length from wire, a bending implement adapted to bend said' blank to substantially Ll-shape, a slide adapted; to pass one, of the ends of said U-shaped blank through a previously formed link, means to feed the tip of a'solder strip-into theplane through which said U-shaped blank moves and between the'ends of said -i i-shaped blank, a former to close said U-shaped blank into linking relation with the previously formed link andto close the ends of said U-shaped blank uponthe said tip ofthe solderstrip, andinieans to sever-the' tip of the solder strip from said strip. V

6. his machine for making articles hav;

'ing connected links, in combination, means for bending a wireblank to U-shape, a slide adapted to" pass an end of, said U-shaped blank through a previously formed link, implements, adapted to form said il -shaped blank into a link in linking relation with said previously formed link, said imple ments comprising a back former and said slide, means for feeding a solder strip so that iii) the tip thereof is, positioned in the plane throughwhich said 'U-shaped blank moves, a slide adapted to carry said tip between the endsof the said U-shaped blank, a knife edge for severing saidv tip from "the strip, and

means to.0pera te said link-forming implements to close the said U-sl1aped-'blank upon saidtip. j

7 In a machine for making articles having connected links, inicombinationfa former to bendQa wireblank to U-shape, a slide c through a, previously formed link" and towardlink-forming implements, said linkadapted to project saidU-shapedblank so that one of the ends thereofv shall pass to the plane of movement of said block, a

knife edge upon said back former adapted to adapted to receive and move said tip between the ends of said U-shaped blank, and means to operate said forming implements to close the U-shaped blank upon said severed tip.

8. In a machine for making articles having connected links, in combination, a former to bend a wire blank to U-shape, a slide adapted to project said U-shaped blank so that one of the ends thereof shall pass through a previously formed link and toward link-forming implements, said linkforming implements comprising said slide, a back former and a forming pin, a reciproeating slide adapted to carry a solder strip, means actuated by said slide to periodically feed the tip of said solder strip into the path of said back former, a knife edge upon said back former adapted to sever the tip of said solder strip therefrom, a guide in the back former adapted to move the severed tip be tween the ends of the U-shaped blank, and means to operate said forming implements to close said U-shaped blank into a link and .upon said severed tip.

9. In a machine for making articles having connected links, in combination, a former to bend a wire blank to U-shape, a slide adapted to project said U-shaped blank so that one of the ends thereof shall pass through a previously formed link and toward linlnforming implements, said linkforming implements comprising said slide, a back former and a forming pin, a reciprocating slide adapted to carry a solder strip, means actuated by said slide to periodically feed the tip of said solder strip into the path of said back former, said solder strip feeding means comprising a pawl upon the said solder slide, said pawl being adapted to engage with and actuate a ratchet, said ratchet being connected with co-acting gears and ribbed rollers actuated by said gears and adapted to embrace between them said solder strip, a knifeedge upon said back former adapted to sever the tip of said solder strip therefrom, a guide in the back former adapted to move the severed tip between the ends of the U-shaped blank, and means to operate said forming implements to close said U- shaped blank into a link and upon said severed tip.

10. In a machine for making articles having 7 connected'links, in combination, means for severing a blank of a predetermined length from wire, a slide adapted to pass one end of said blankthrough a previously formed link, means to form said blank into link formation, a solder-thread-guide movable toward and from said link'forming means and adapted to intermittently feed a solder strip between the ends of successive links, a

which the ends of said blank move and between the ends of said blank, means to close said blank into linking relation with the previously formed link and to close the ends of said blank upon the tip of the solder strip, and means to sever the tip of the solder strip from said strip.

Frankfort-on-the-Main, this 8th day of August, 1921.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. J OHANN MARTIN WEBER. 

